How to get top level domain name of URL in swift 4?

Question

My requirement is to get domain name of URL by filtering out it's subdomain name.

i can get host name by using code as below

if let url = URL(string: "https://blog.abc.in/")  {
    if let hostName = url.host  {
         print("host name = \(hostName)") // output is: blog.mobilock.in
    }
 }

so here in URL blog is a subdomain and abc is a domain name, I wish to know/print only abc by excluding its subdomain parts.

In android, there is a class InternetDomainName which return domain name, the similar solution I am looking for iOS

I tried several answers and it's not duplicate of any or some of them is not working or that is a workaround.

Get the domain part of an URL string?

Sheshnath · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-10T16:41:29.227

So finally i found better and standard approach for this issue -

Mozilla volunteers maintain Public Suffix List and there you can find list of library for respective language. so in list Swift library is also present. At the time of writing this answer Swift library don't have provison of adding it through CocoPods so you have to add downloaded project directly into your project. Code to get TLD name assuming Swift library is added into your project.

import DomainParser

static func getTLD(withSiteURL:String) -> String? {
        do{
            let domainParse = try DomainParser()
            if let publicSuffixName = domainParse.parse(host: withSiteURL)?.publicSuffix {
                if let domainName = domainParse.parse(host: withSiteURL)?.domain {

                    let tldName = domainName.replacingOccurrences(of: publicSuffixName, with: "").replacingOccurrences(of: ".", with: "")
                    print("top level name = \(tldName)")
                    return tldName
                }
            }
        }catch{
        }
        return nil
    }

Add Domain parser library as sub-project of your project, as pod of this library is not available yet

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '18 at 10:27

It is just a workaround but works perfectly:

    if let url = URL(string: "https://x.y.z.a.b.blog.mobilock.in/")  {
        if let hostName = url.host  {
            print("host name = \(hostName)") // output is: x.y.z.a.b.blog.mobilock.in

            let subStrings = hostName.components(separatedBy: ".")
            var domainName = ""
            let count = subStrings.count
            if count > 2 {
                domainName = subStrings[count - 2] + "." + subStrings[count - 1]
            } else if count == 2 {
                domainName = hostName
            }
            print(domainName)
        }
    }

Let me know if you face any issue.

thanks priyal, but is this solution can handle foo.co.uk , here at the end of url there is 2 public suffix one is .co and second is .uk — Sheshnath, Jul 23 '18 at 10:33

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 23 '18 at 10:38

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There is no simple way, regardless of language. See How to extract top-level domain name (TLD) from URL for some good discussion of the difficulties involved.

answered Jul 23 '18 at 10:38

matt

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 14 '19 at 12:56

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To fetch the root domain of a URL, you can use the following URL extension:

extension URL {
    var rootDomain: String? {
        guard let hostName = self.host else { return nil }
        let components = hostName.components(separatedBy: ".")
        if components.count > 2 {
            return components.suffix(2).joined(separator: ".")
        } else {
            return hostName
        }
    }
}

answered Oct 14 '19 at 12:56

Soheil Novinfard

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see my comment at @priyal answer, a domain name is not just having patterns it is database of patterns, which get updated regularly – Sheshnath Oct 14 '19 at 15:02
@sheshnath you're right. Top level domains can have different patterns like `co.uk` – Soheil Novinfard Oct 14 '19 at 15:29

How to get top level domain name of URL in swift 4?

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